Homework Help: math

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, July 16, 2012 at 1:34pm.

A jar contains 3 pink balls, 6 blue balls, and 3 red balls.

Event A = drawing a red ball on the first draw
Event B = drawing a pink ball on the second draw

If two balls are drawn from the jar, one after the other without replacement, what is P(A and B) expressed in simplest form

math - PsyDAG, Monday, July 16, 2012 at 4:15pm
3/12 = ?

Since on red ball is already gone,

3/11 = ?

The probability of both/all events occurring is determined by multiplying the probabilities of the individual events.

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